Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Steel-McInnes

From Graces Guide

A form of continuous air braking system developed for railway trains


1875 Two trains of the Caledonian Railway were fitted with the Steel-McInnes air brake system as an experiment[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Nov 24, 1876
  • The 14 types of continuous brake in use in 1876 were described in The Times, Nov 24, 1876.